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Implements #8628
What does this implement/fix? Explain your changes.
This implements UnaryEncoder, which is a more informative encoding than one-hot for ordinal features. Implemented a new class UnaryEncoder whose interface is same as OneHotEncoder class.
Any other comments?
Logic: For
k
values 0, ..., k - 1 of the ordinal feature x, this createsk - 1
binary features such that thei
th is active ifx > j
(for j = 0, ... i)Working Example